Dwellings By DeVore: Outdoor spaces

With all this beautiful warm weather, and summer approaching, I have gotten eager to start a new project. Spending the weekend in Charleston really inspired me to give my backyard a little face lift. It's not bad now, it's just kind of boring. I would love it to turn it into a beautiful "outdoor room" so that my husband and I can spend nice evenings out there and do some more entertaining outside as well as inside. I would love a fountain, a chandelier, maybe a nice outdoor rug, some plants, etc, but I need to do it all on a budget of course. I plan on doing several DIY projects and of course I will share them with you as I go along, one of which includes a pergola (not sure how I'm going to do that yet) We don't have a lot of space to work with and I definitly don't have a green thumb so this should be interesting. Join me on my journey to turn my backyard into something like this...